Dev compares current migration wave to Y2K and Heartbleed: "this is the big tsunami"
MickeySteamboat · x · 2026-10-23
- MickeySteamboat replied to @wholemars that this year's migration wave will 'go down in history larger than Y2K, larger than Heartbleed — this is the big tsunami right now.'
- Pressed further, he said the world's best engineers are actively cranking on it and the real problem is 'the corpse of 20 years legacy debt,' punctuating the thread with a Mickey Mouse ruins artwork.
- A viewpoint-heavy AI-community exchange about large-scale legacy migration risk; specifics remain thin but it captures a real industry anxiety.
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